My Contents Page evaluation

I feel that my contents is a dramatical improvement on my front cover. The contrasting colours of white red and black work very well and immediately draw attention to the important part of the contents, the page numbers. The advert for subscribing is also effective as it draws yours attention straight away and importantly, fills the gap at the bottom of the page. The subscribe advert also uses the contrasting colour scheme which I have tried to keep throughout the whole magazine. The "plus" section also works well as this makes my magazine look real and professionally done.

My Front Cover evaluation

This is the final draft of my music magazine front cover. Although overall I am happy with this, I feel as though I could have made it much better. I am happy with the name but the fact that the advertisement of the poster is larger than the name is not good. The little circle that advertises the MGMT tickets works well with the main headline. The barocde and date and issue number are all there which is essnetial for a magazine. I feel that the black and white writing on my model's arm works well and I am very pleased with that. One major change that I would make would be me either retaking the photo or cutting it out and cropping it better as this could be dramatically improved.

What have I learned from my preliminary task

From my preliminary task, I have learnt that I need to spend more time on the layout of the page and also to take more care when taking a photo. Another thing that I have learnt is to use language that doesn’t feel laboured to read and that is also very boring.

What have I learned

I have learnt how to effectively use Macromedia Fireworks. This includes me learning about how to accurately cut out a photo which is something that beforehand, I had no idea what to do. I can now also accurately organsie and take a photo of models which is something I had no clue what to do. I also haev obviously learned the basics of designing a magazine.

Attracting my audience

To attract my target audience, I named bands that make music of this genre, I used bright, contrasting colours, specific language that my audience would use and used similar aged models as the target audience. They would be able to easily relate to them and this would make it a more enjoyable read.

The Distribution of my magazine

The media institution that would probably distribute my media product would probably be IPC Media. I think they would distribute this because they also produce NME which is a similar magazine to mine. Although they may not choose to distribute it as they already have a magazine of similar fashion. Or they probably would because they wouldn’t want a rival magazine being distributed by a rival company.

Representing certain social groups

My product represents the social group that is associated with rock & indie as it uses similar language and that involves similar music and bands. The models used also highlight the importance of representing social groups and I tried to design the magazine in reference with this and to make it seem as interesting to my target audience as possible.